[asterisk-users] Langugae issue

[Mike Trest - Personal]

Tzafrir, Anselm, and others.  Thanks for your comments on my 
suggestion to Ayman.

As one who is "familiar, but not-native speaker" with Arabic, Hebrew, 
and several other classical Semitic family languages,  it would 
require much more time to try to fit those into the linear structure 
of SAY.CONF  than to deal with it in a directly parsed manner.  I can 
say the same for some Asian languages too.  The results would 
recognized but would not be culturally acceptable.

OFF TOPIC COMMENTS:
I am constantly amazed at cross-language translations that try to 
follow the western language standards in computerized 
applications.  Historically, the use of numbers came relatively late 
to western languages.   While I am proud to be an American (as well 
as a computer-geek), I have crossed the multi-lingual & 
multi-cultural barriers many years back!
END OFF TOPIC COMMENTS.

..mike..

At 11:23 AM 3/30/2008, you wrote:
>On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:16:00PM +0200, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 30.03.2008, 09:54 -0400 schrieb Mike Trest - Personal:
> > > Ayman,
> > >
> > > One solution is to write an AGI scrip to parse the number and read
> > > back in Arabic semantic order.  for the last two digits and for
> > > certain special numbers like 11 , 100 , 1000, ... .    I must bring
> > > out my old Arabic language books to do this myself, but if you will
> > > share the language files with the asterisk group, then  I will make an
> > > example AGI for you that we can share with the list.
> > >
> > > If you are agreeable, let us  continue EMAIL messages privately until
> > > we have something working that we can share with the list.
> > >
> > > ..mike..
> >
> > Dear Mike,
> >
> > for me it seems that this is what say.conf is good for:
> > 
> http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.6.0/configs/say.conf.sample?revision=105596&view=markup
> > (which seems to be considered the "new" format).
> >
> > Perhaps it would be better to implement Arabic there than by means of an
> > AGI script. Be sure to check with the developers wether this will be
> > relevant for Asterisk 1.4 or if you need to go with 1.6 SVN to benefit.
>
>say.conf works nicely for some languages. I was not able to make
>something useful enough with its syntax for Hebrew, and from the little
>I know of Arabic syntax, it will share the same problem.
>
>One basic problem is that there's no gender-form parameter anywhere in
>the interface.
>
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